Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, has succeeded only in destroying pride and incentive. Observed Evans: "The first priority of the U.S. is the resolution of our internal conflict?the recognition that if we cannot unite our own nation, then we cannot preserve the hope of others." But that, he added carefully, did not mean a pell-mell pullout from Viet Nam. "To have entered the war by the path of error does not mean that we can now leave through the door of default...
That assumption may well be correct, but it does not go far enough. In diplomacy, "essential negotiations," as the Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn points out, mean "agonizing compromises on both sides" before any settlement can be reached. Not all the basic goals of either U.S. or North Vietnamese policy are likely to survive a genuine settlement. Furthermore, the nature of the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia has undergone considerable change, as French Political Scientist Raymond Aron has astutely pointed out. Initially, the issue in Viet Nam was blunt, says Aron: "Either the Viet Cong will rule in Saigon...
...even that faint feedback carries a definite message. If the signals bounce back polarized-in other words, with their electric fields reversed-they indicate rough terrain. Unpolarized echoes, on the other hand, mean smooth surfaces. In either case, the target areas are pinpointed by a system of coordinates similar to latitude and longitude. One coordinate is located simply by clocking the signal: the quicker it bounces back, the closer the bounce-back point is to that part of Venus nearest to Earth...
Natural Law. Although not explicitly stated in the encyclical, the reasoning behind Humanae Vitae was based on natural law. A concept borrowed from the Stoics, this philosophical theory has been interpreted in traditional Catholic thinking to mean that man can properly define the nature of an object from its apparent purpose; just as the ear is for hearing, the argument runs, the sexual organs are for generating. In the name of natural law, which is really God's law, and in defense of the sanctity of life, the bishops of pagan Rome went on record early in condemning abortion...
...apparently still thinks so little of him that it refused to lend any work to the Stockholm show.) But in retrospect, argues the Modern Museum's Pontus Hulten, "Tatlin is emerging ever more clearly as one of the few really great figures of 20th century art. His ideas mean more at present for many of the younger artists than Picasso or the surrealists...